Rice recipes

Rice and beans are a classic combination. As the name implies, it’s rice cooked together with beans. It’s inexpensive, nutritious, and goes with just about any meal.

Rice is a great staple food. It’s broadly available, dirt-cheap, and incredibly versatile. It’s easy to whip up and it goes with just about anything! I’ve made this list to help you find some recipes that utilize this simple white grain!

Jambalaya – Delicious, one-pot meal bursts with bold Creole flavors! If you are looking to add some real flavor to your rice, jambalaya is one of the best ways to do it. 

Enjoy the flavors of West Africa with this Senegalese Poulet Yassa made from Chicken pieces, marinated overnight with lots of onions, some mustard, and a bit of lemon juice. This dish is so easy to make, smells great, looks beautiful, and tastes delicious. If you are in the mood for an exotic dish try this one!

Nigerian Jollof Rice or Jellof rice is a rich and incredibly tasty west African one-pot Meal. It is a very versatile dish, and it is usually made from scratch using Rice, Tomatoes, Pimento peppers, Tomato paste, Scotch bonnet, Onions, Salt, and other spices.

Nigerian Style Chicken Fried Rice – Transform leftover rice into an easy fried rice dish that your family will love. This version of the Nigerian fried Rice dish delivers a delicious flavor with minimal efforts. It comes together in a little time with minimal effort making it perfect for a weeknight.  

This is an incredibly easy, but delicious recipe. The uniqueness of this jollof rice lies in the roasting of the bell peppers, tomatoes, onions, and garlic. This brings an additional depth of flavor to the meal. If you’re looking for a Jollof Rice recipe that will be the star of the show, this is it!

Coconut Fried Rice – Rice cooked in broth and coconut milk with lots of vegetables and protein. The end product is an enticing combination of textures, colors, and flavors. It smells heavenly and tastes even better!

Easy Shrimp Pineapple Fried Rice – This is a very simple dish but it is bursting with flavor; made with shrimps, sweet pineapple chunks, rice, vegetables, soy sauce, and scrambled eggs. All stir-fried together to create this easy but tasty fried rice. It’s a complete meal in a bowl.

East African Pilau is a traditional, beautiful fragrant rice dish made with many aromatic spices that adds an amazing depth of flavor to the rice. It can be made with either beef or chicken.

This Oven Baked seafood Jambalaya is a twist on the traditional jambalaya recipe. It’s crowd pleasingly delicious with a pronounced personality. It contains a variety of textures and tastes and certainly looks elegant on the plate.

Nigerian Fried Rice is a very simple yet delicious recipe. This version relies on a ton of fresh vegetables, Beef Liver, and a little bit of oil for crisping it up.

Oven Baked Jollof Rice – Here is another take on Jollof Rice, one of the most famous West African one pot meal. Simplicity, is what sets apart the stove top from the oven baked method of cooking Jollof rice. Delicious Oven Baked Jollof Rice to please everyone!

Delicious, easy One Pot Chicken and Rice to please everyone!  This simple combination of chicken and rice in just one pot is so satisfying. It’s basically a full meal in one pot. It’s Budget-friendly and family-friendly plus it comes together pretty quickly in about 45 minutes.

If you are new to making the Shrimp Fried Rice recipe, let me welcome you. This easy Shrimp fried rice has a fantastic flavor, not one that is overpowering but it is unique in its own way. Don’t get it twisted; this African shrimp fried rice is entirely different from the Chinese shrimp fried rice in …

The Nigerian native Jollof Rice is also known as Iwuk Edesi or Palm oil Rice is soul food at its finest – It’s hearty, incredibly satisfying, and deeply comforting.

Chicken Fried Rice is very easy to put together at the same time one could easily go wrong especially when it comes to the moisture content in the Rice, the more reason why it is best to use the rice that has been cooked a day before for this recipe, this is because the longer …

Coconut Rice – A savory side dish made with rice, cooked in aromatic coconut milk. It is so rich, luscious and bursting with aromatic coconut flavors. You will be surprised that a Rice recipe this simple has so much flavor. How to make Coconut Rice It’s not an exaggeration to say that rice is eaten …

Stuffed Savory Nigerian Masa (Waina)- This recipe is a Northern Nigerian delight and it’s made by soaking a special type of Rice called Tuwo Rice (the uncooked one) in water for at least 6 hours or overnight. This Rice is then rinsed out and blended into a smooth paste before it’s now cooked inside a …

The Nigerian Northerners are known for their healthy and delicious meals and I was not too surprised the very first time I ate Masa. It tastes so delicious and my family could not have enough of it. You definitely need to give this a try. Don’t let the large numbers of hours written in this …